In July of 1967, Capitol Records released “Ode to ... And secondly, who the hell is Bobbie Gentry? Fifty years later, neither question has been answered. Most people guess it was a baby, a ...

“Ode to Billie Joe,” Bobbie Gentry’s baroque-folk tale about a family’s indifference to the death of a character named Billie Joe McAllister, sounded like nothing else on the radio the ...

That is the opening line of one of music’s most discussed, examined and appreciated songs — “Ode to Billie Joe,” written and performed by Bobbie Gentry ... Capitol Records believed had the ...

The tune earned Gentry three Grammy Awards — Best Pop Vocal Performance ... I have been chasing Bobbie Gentry for years, longer than any person I’ve chased in my newspaper career.

This is not a story about what happened to Bobbie Gentry. Plenty have attempted to unravel that mystery, which continues to be dissected every few years by journalists and admirers who can’t ...

Enter Your Email to Unlock This Article Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld ... But 'Where is Bobbie Gentry?' is not the question we should be asking: Gentry was a trailblazer who was years ...

It's one of country music's greatest mysteries: How and why Bobbie Gentry quietly ... can be drawn there is flimsy at best. Sounder evidence pointing to Gentry being in the Memphis area comes ...

The tune earned Gentry three Grammy Awards — Best Pop Vocal Performance ... I have been chasing Bobbie Gentry for years, longer than any person I’ve chased in my newspaper career.

The tune earned Gentry three Grammy Awards — Best Pop Vocal Performance ... I have been chasing Bobbie Gentry for years, longer than any person I’ve chased in my newspaper career.

That is the opening line of one of music’s most discussed, examined and appreciated songs - “Ode to Billie Joe,” written and performed by Bobbie Gentry ... Capitol Records believed had the ...